If true, that would mean the city is now encircled.
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But all now find themselves encircled by big data's reach.
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Dozens of New York police vehicles and officers encircled them.
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Apparent scorch marks encircled the flattened wreckage in the snow.
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She is encircled by rope, her hands restrained at her sides.
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A moat encircled the bulwark and the wall's four-mile circumference.
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A white tunnel encircled by red, green, and blue light appeared.
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Islamic State militants are now encircled in Sirte's central residential areas.
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Mr. Jacquet was encircled and pelted with questions: Who are you?
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My room was among those that encircled the double-height lobby.
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It is encircled by 13 messages from each of the families.
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"The town is almost encircled," the Observatory's director Rami Abdulrahman said.
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When Hepburn entered a room, her stride practically encircled the globe.
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Answer: bulbous leather "pearls" that encircled a model's thighs and shoulders.
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Aleppo, Syria's largest city, is now virtually encircled by the Syrian Army.
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Barbed-wire fence eventually encircled the structure, attempting to keep people out.
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It was encircled by four giant flood lights wired to a generator.
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On the day they were encircled, Poroshenko's holding company was officially registered.
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There she sits, long-locked, encircled by a ring of Greek keys.
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Meanwhile, a single autonomous finger points forever upwards, encircled in pink bands.
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In the same scene, Kat's eyes are encircled by bright green liner.
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It's encircled by a half-dozen countries, including Russia, Turkey and Bulgaria.
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"Streetball" is a gray concrete ball encircled by a broken yellow line.
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As has been the case for a decade, the strip remains encircled.
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This tiny hospital ID encircled Owen's ankle when he was in the NICU.
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Today, the ring fort is barely recognizable, a green mound encircled by rocks.
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Police called for reinforcements and encircled the area, challenging the militants to surrender.
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"Fellas, easy," Trump warned, stretching his hands out as the pack encircled him.
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And then we saw Agashya sleeping, encircled by some members of his clan.
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More than 100 officers in gas masks and body armor encircled the site.
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Her outfit was encircled by a tutu tilted at a particularly rakish angle.
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A maze of metal barricades encircled the Capitol in downtown Richmond on Sunday.
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The statue was illuminated by spotlights and dozens of American flags encircled it.
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Mr. Netanyahu said the neighborhood had been "encircled" by security forces on Sunday.
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Since then, the government has focused on regaining four less populous encircled enclaves.
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All that remains, said Furat, is an encircled pocket some 700 meters square.
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Barriers encircled the hotel and the streets around the downtown area were closed down.
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Civilians also suffer in rebel-encircled northern towns, though government helicopters make occasional airdrops.
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The gigantic timepiece sits in a deep shaft, encircled by a steep spiral staircase.
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By winter, the Russian counteroffensive had beaten back the tide and encircled German troops.
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Physically, SPOT is very simple: It's just a small room encircled by reclining chairs.
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In the past few weeks, pro-regime forces have more or less encircled Aleppo.
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Wherever they are more encircled and lose territory, they increase their attacks on civilians.
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There, Nureyev is encircled by Soviet officials, as if by a pack of wolves.
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Researchers recovered the beads in Lesotho, a small, mountainous country encircled by South Africa.
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Small, private courtyards behind the dining room and master bathroom are encircled by bamboo.
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About 150 hikers had to be rescued in Oregon when a fire encircled them.
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Their quarters thus encircled, the Jews were forced to move into Novogrudok's first ghetto.
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The father's arm encircled Posey and occasionally he peppered her with his clicking kisses.
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The SDF has encircled the militants and captured around 60 percent of the city.
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The corresponding room on the third floor is encircled by a ribbon of windows.
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It shows two buildings dwarfing the landscape, encircled by a gauzy wreath of smoke.
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Quick-thinking dancers encircled the crasher until security agents arrived onstage and surrounded the headliner.
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Her father, who was a contractor, built the stone wall that encircled the Lortel estate.
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Instead, you're adorned with a pair of bright blue sunglasses and encircled in shiny lights.
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Fifteen women encircled Filipelli, who wore an olive-green dress and over-the-knee boots.
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Then they saw it encircled by a gently sloping earthen berm that offers extra protection.
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Or the fact it may lead to your head office being encircled by irate protesters.
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They were encircled by hundreds of euphoric dancers jumping and crying out in pure ecstasy.
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As CNN reported earlier Thursday, a throng of Republicans encircled Corker and Flake as Sen.
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Some Islamic State commanders and fighters escaped before Surt was encircled, officials from Misurata said.
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Among those arrested were white protesters who encircled other protesters to shield them from police.
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Fauci's image is then encircled with piped frosting decorated with red, white and blue sprinkles.
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Across the road, a woodsy marsh encircled by trees is festooned with brightly painted birdhouses.
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In the middle of the room, a mixing desk was encircled by four tall loudspeakers.
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Expertly curated, the rooms of the exhibition encircled Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" (1974–1979).
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It was encircled by a 130 million-year-old faint blue ring, with nothing connecting it.
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At the meeting, she showed a slide of an airport gate encircled by explosive-detecting shrubbery.
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At least 5,000 pro-government forces had encircled eastern Aleppo in a "surrender or starve" tactic.
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Four antigovernment protesters remained holed up at an Oregon wildlife refuge encircled by law enforcement roadblocks.
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Islamic State then overran rebel positions and encircled the army's enclave in the city in 2014.
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They coalesced out of the same blob of gas and dust that encircled our young Sun.
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Mayhoub said IS militants are now isolated and encircled in the countryside east of the city.
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But Madaya is encircled by checkpoints and landmines and access in and out is tightly controlled.
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The city's eastern neighborhoods were encircled by government troops last week, cutting off all supply lines.
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The Court is encircled by anonymously funded organizations seeking partisan political gain, not adherence to law.
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After just one day in the encircled American compound, he knew something much bigger had happened.
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Sokh, for instance, although part of Uzbekistan and encircled by Kyrgyzstan, is peopled mostly by Tajiks.
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A climate sceptic encircled by members of Extinction Rebellion might do the same thing in reverse.
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Moving down the driveway, we encounter a man dressed in blue, encircled by a stone wall.
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So on March 10, officials announced the creation of a containment zone that encircled the synagogue.
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Next to the base was a telecommunication tower, shiny and new, also encircled by crude fencing.
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Another visual element is a ring encircled by a cluster of bands with numbers on them.
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The fountain, no longer pumping water, was encircled by the black flags of the extremist group.
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In 2009, a new strain of the H1N1 flu virus encircled the globe in a pandemic.
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Each woolly neck was encircled with a grosgrain ribbon, from which dangled a numbered plastic tag.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump looks -- and is acting -- rattled and encircled by the Russia investigation.
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In Syria, the insurgents' "capital", Raqqa, is nearly encircled by a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition.
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In Syria, the insurgents' "capital" Raqqa, is nearly encircled by a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition.
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A huge tree-encircled plot on the main highway will be the town&aposs first industrial zone.
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To be fair, those answers are also elusive for the residents of the encircled and occupied city.
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F.B.I. agents have encircled the last four armed occupiers of a national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon.
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One of the rebel sources said Islamic State fighters had encircled the rebels in a surprise ambush.
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Abdullah Tato, whose soldiers encircled the ISIS-held town of Bashiqa, a few miles northeast of Mosul.
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The forces attacking ISIS in Mosul have largely encircled the city from the north, south and east.
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Otherwise, Snapchat may find itself encircled by other, larger predators on the hunt for the same game.
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Religious communities are by their nature encircled by a defended boundary, especially those surviving amid secular societies.
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Sando and Lupe began by building a fire on the covered porch that encircled the hacienda's courtyard.
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Four floral watches, their diamond-encircled dials accented with dancing enamel flowers, will be released as well.
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A full spectrum of light encircled the top arch of one wall, shadows bouncing off Kelly's stations.
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It is one of a handful of white dwarfs known to be encircled by disks of debris.
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This capital of white marble is now encircled by yellow tape, rife with mendacity, cowardice and corruption.
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The property boasts four separate structures, each of which is a round tent encircled with canvas covers.
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Heydari was there, standing around the statue with counterprotesters before the neo-Nazis approached and encircled them.
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In both cases, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been trapped inside encircled pockets on the battlefield.
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And the E.U and Japan have now come in and encircled China within the WTO along our side.
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At least 5,000 pro-government forces also encircled eastern Aleppo in a "surrender or starve" tactic, it said.
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Corals are often encircled by beds of seagrass, which die off and decompose every winter, releasing additional CO2.
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The LNA has long encircled the city of 125,000, the last in eastern Libya to elude its control.
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They encircled 19-year-old Mateus da Silva Xavier, a student from Sao Paolo holding an anarchist flag.
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The large-scale maneuvers will only fuel the Kremlin narrative that Russia is being encircled by hostile forces.
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Wearing a NeuroSky EEG headset, she sat encircled by dishes of water, each independently representing a different emotion.
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He said Aleppo, where rebels are encircled by Syrian government forces, would never be occupied by Assad's forces.
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As the officers were conducting the stop, two men on dirt bikes encircled them, according to the police.
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Engineers lost contact with the solar-powered vehicle on June 10 during a dust storm that encircled Mars.
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Hundreds of parishioners encircled the church to protect the cross, facing off against hundreds of riot police officers.
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More than 100 Boko Haram fighters, some of them on horseback, had encircled the vehicles, ready to strike.
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The walls of the exhibition are encircled with diaristic paintings of macro and microscopic views of his experiences.
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Before they could get there, they found themselves encircled by two military dinghies and a coast guard boat.
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Rothenberg seems to think the chaos that encircled his firm last year owes to a series of misunderstandings.
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With her eyes encircled in shimmery green eye shadow she had applied herself that morning, she appeared luminous.
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And the movie image of someone imparting profound last words upon his deathbed, encircled by his faithful family?
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Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world.
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Crupi still had nightmares about last year's style, a too-complex choice involving a pouf encircled by braids.
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Soon, the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, 64, was encircled by an animated group of high school boys.
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Frantic residents, encircled by choking dense smoke and swirling embers, ran out of gas and ditched their cars.
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A counterfeit preacher, shoulders wreathed in dynamite and neck encircled by a makeshift noose, ponders his probable demise.
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Syrian government troops completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods last week, cutting off all supply lines to the enclave.
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There were still 100 protesters remaining inside the encircled campus Tuesday, said Carrie Lam, the city's chief executive.
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A flower-encircled statue of Seabiscuit stands before the park's Art Deco-style buildings, overlooking the public entrance.
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The murder case has caused turmoil in the tiny state of 2 million people encircled by South Africa.
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According to Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency, Turkish forces said Tuesday they had encircled the city of Afrin.
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Green-Wood is a site that celebrates nature, even as the development of Brooklyn has encircled its verdant terrain.
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I felt every knuckle against my most tender parts, prodding my clitoris forward, as his mouth fully encircled me.
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The Illilouette Creek wilderness area, in Yosemite National Park, is encircled by granite peaks that create a natural firebreak.
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They assert Iraqi army forces have encircled Falluja and are expected to storm this city west of Baghdad soon.
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Those friends say that's where Trump feels most himself, encircled by a rotating assortment of children, grandchildren and members.
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In Syria, the Islamic State-held capital of Raqqa, is virtually encircled by a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition.
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Aleppo is now almost encircled by the Syrian army and Shia fighters from Iraq and Afghanistan under Iranian command.
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"Of course things are tough, but we are encircled by enemies and will bear this crisis," she says resolutely.
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The west came close to being encircled itself during fighting last month as rebels severed the only road in.
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Iraq's army said it had encircled Fallujah, but the western bank of the Euphrates is not under its control.
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Now, as the Army encircled the Old City, electricity and water supplies were cut off, and life became impossible.
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He pulled up at Suffern Middle School, which doubled as Kayla's: a chunky brick edifice encircled by yellow buses.
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Trash has emerged as one of China's biggest environmental challenges, with most major cities encircled by miles of landfill.
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This battle, part of the horrific Tet Offensive, was another tough fight where US Marines were encircled and outnumbered.
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To get a sense of the jewel-like, mountain-encircled setting of Queenstown, go vertical one of two ways.
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In an attack on another Facebook executive last year, police officers encircled the man's home in Palo Alto, Calif.
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Fog encircled me, erasing the full moon that would have helped me find the path to my friend's house.
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The next crisis may lurk in the mountains of Lesotho, a land-locked mountain kingdom encircled by South Africa.
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Wearing a rainbow swaddle, the 2-week-old is encircled with hundreds of syringes showing her parents' IVF struggles.
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During the battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014, Ukrainian soldiers became encircled by Russian regular soldiers and separatist fighters.
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"This one begins with a text encircled by a red line designated as 'ring of fire,'" Dr. Willems said.
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The Observatory said Turkish forces and their Syrian militia allies had encircled 700,000 people in Afrin and nearby areas.
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The celestial objects that resulted formed a body, which he described as a Mother-Sun, encircled by seven smaller orbs.
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In one installation, seaweed, kelp, and chopsticks are heaped in a rectangular plastic tray encircled by length of steel wire.
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The town, Madaya, is controlled by rebels and encircled by pro-government forces with barbed wire, land mines and snipers.
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It's comprised of one giant storm encircled by eight spinning cyclones — all of which have larger diameters than the moon.
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To have someone encircled, then targeted mercilessly by bouncing ping pong balls, forced to defend themselves with only one paddle?
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Though a U.S.-backed rebel group controls the area, it abuts Jordan's border and is encircled by the Syrian army.
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The upcoming season is encircled with a moat of embargoes and nondisclosures, but, nevertheless, things have slipped through the cracks.
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The handle of one of the sledgehammers is encircled by a Lucky Strike cigarette pack, its red logo clearly visible.
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Half the size of the large, sweaty men who surrounded him, as if he were a child encircled by monsters.
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Then Lozada and Timochenko left to celebrate with a few friends in a walled parking lot, encircled by their bodyguards.
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Encircled with vultures waiting for one of three car parking spaces, it feels like a petri dish for nervous breakdowns.
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Eventually he's deposited in a foggy clearing lit like a club or a stadium, where he's encircled by four men.
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One of the suicide bombers blew himself up in Tahrir Square in central Damascus after being encircled by the authorities.
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American military forces and their allies have all but encircled the city, reclaiming, they say, more than half of it.
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Mike Smith, the 71-year-old former pastor of the Shinnecock Presbyterian Church, the road that encircled the cemetery flooded.
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While sipping water from a bottle, Greinke drank in the scene as one teammate after another was encircled by reporters.
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Yachties had discovered Vathy, the little main town gathered around a port, and blond Knightsbridgeites encircled the bust of Homer.
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It encircled a roundabout, waited patiently for pedestrians to cross the street, and dodged traffic cones and bicyclists with ease.
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Mr. Boutsinis and I then walked along a path on a mountain ridge and found ourselves encircled by sea views.
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Two days earlier, thousands of demonstrators briefly encircled the American Embassy in central Seoul during a peaceful anti-Thaad march.
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Before the deal's announcement, Turkish-backed forces had encircled the town and were battling fierce resistance from Kurdish fighters inside.
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Gandhi was encircled by a "college of sycophants", said a former Congress official who joined a rival bloc this year.
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In glossy magazine tear sheets that became a riot of prints and duct tape that encircled stiletto boots for shine.
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Protests are rare in Gambia, a tiny territory along the banks of a river that is almost encircled by Senegal.
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The firm said it had removed the diamond from the Letseng mine in Lesotho, a country encircled by South Africa.
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Just beside the small church, I found the shallow well, still encircled by limestone, still filled with lightly running water.
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It's a region encircled by ocean currents which keeps its ecosystem a bit separated from the rest of the Atlantic.
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The city has been encircled for weeks, but this is the first time the jihadists' opponents have entered the city limits.
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RICK LEVENTHAL, FOX NEWS: Neil, we&aposre outside the National Assembly, which is completely encircled by police officers in riot gear.
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The largest group is encircled by the Islamic State, which is blockading 200,000 people in Deir al-Zour, in the east.
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In July, regime forces encircled the area, essentially cutting it off from food and medical supplies, sparking a humanitarian crisis there.
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Last week, Syrian forces surrounded another large IS enclave in central Syria to the west of the one encircled on Thursday.
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Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air support, encircled Islamic State militants, forcing them to flee into the interior eastern desert.
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They are indeed bound to it, owning it, craving it, their lives encircled by the same few acres of claggy clods.
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The Great Hall is triple-hung with European paintings encircled by a spirited art-historical Cliff Notes from Egypt to Florence.
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The area was essentially cut off in July when the Syrian government launched a siege and encircled the rebel-held area.
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The area was essentially cut off in July, when the Syrian government launched a siege and encircled the rebel-held area.
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NASA last heard from Opportunity on June 10, 2018, after a dust storm encircled the planet, blocking the rover's solar panels.
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One of the hardest hit areas has been Diyarbakir's historic Sur district, which is encircled by UNESCO-listed, Roman-era walls.
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The largest group is encircled by the Islamic State, which is blockading 200,000 people in Deir al-Zour, in the east.
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Hashimi said Islamic State was moving some fighters out of Raqqa before it was encircled to regroup in Deir al-Zor.
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The rest are besieged by the government or allied Hezbollah forces, except for Deir al-Zor, encircled by Islamic State militants.
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But the opposition whip, Gord Brown, a Conservative, was encircled by a ring of New Democrats before he could sit down.
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Hillenbrand begins with our hero, his plane having gone down in the Pacific, floating on a life raft encircled by sharks.
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The question of why do we have such a bad life is not raised, because Russia is shown encircled by enemies.
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Hussein Halaq, 35, a computer technician, lives with his wife and three children in Fouaa, one of those encircled Shiite villages.
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Bollywood films like "Sultan" are a reminder that the rage of feeling culturally encircled is not limited to the Islamic world.
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Three villagers have been killed in two clashes near another Fergana Valley exclave, Vorukh, a Tajik-governed territory encircled by Kyrgyzstan.
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When you find the name or number in the list, tap the encircled "i" icon to the right of the entry.
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One of the hardest hit areas has been Diyarbakir's historic Sur district, which is encircled by Unesco-listed Roman-era walls.
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Located along a beautiful coastline and encircled by mountains, the city was originally founded in the 21920th century by the Portuguese.
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Syrian troops taking part in the offensive have encircled rebels and a Turkish military observation post near the town of Morek.
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From the bed of a white pick-up, Lladrovci saw a large expanse of dirt encircled by a chain-link fence.
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The olive groves that have encircled Cellino San Marco since ancient times are now turning into what locals call tree cemeteries.
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The Guards immediately encircled the men and responded with machine gun fire, killing as many as 100 people, the residents said.
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The agency held a news conference to detail the results of recovery efforts since a dust storm encircled Mars last year.
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An extended, violent siege at Polytechnic University, where police have encircled students and activists, raises city tensions to a new high.
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The ring has a vintage feel with one center stone encircled by many smaller stones and set on a yellow-gold band.
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The city of Aleppo, in rebel hands for four years, has been encircled by Mr. Assad's troops and bombed by Russian aircraft.
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When it comes to documenting after-dark activity, the radius of interest is firmly encircled round our capital, which isn't right really.
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Many ex-Nusra fighters left before the area was encircled and no more than 900 remain, he said, before addressing them directly.
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That would essentially leave the country under Russian military domination, the Baltic states more encircled and the rest of Europe deeply unsettled.
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In one incident, an Iranian vessel approached a U.S. ship at high speed, and in another incident, one encircled a Navy ship.
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"He's a compromise guy encircled by old-guard Leninist ideologues, the Tigray boys," says Beyene Petros, a veteran leader of the opposition.
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The Syrian government, backed by Russian air power, has pummeled the rebel-held parts of Aleppo, which is encircled by Syrian forces.
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He walked from one side of his voter-encircled pen to the other, moving closer to voters as they asked their questions.
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Iraqi counter-terrorism service (CTS) units encircled the nearby Sukkar district on Monday and sought to recapture the strategic Mosul University area.
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The grand library is completely encircled by water and outfitted with a transparent glass floor, which peeks into the home's wine cellar.
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After the government encircled the rebel side over the summer, a pro-government reporter, Shadi Helweh, taunted the rebels on state television.
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Like the original 120-foot Unisphere, built for the 1964-65 World's Fair, the Trump globe is encircled by three orbital rings.
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Pro-government forces encircled the rebel zone this month, trapping an estimated 300,000 civilians there with no way to bring in food.
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They were drifting on her stepfather's boat in the middle of an otherwise empty man-made lake encircled by large tract houses.
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As our truck convoy pulled into the north parking lot of the Pentagon, we could see that uniforms already encircled the building.
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It looks like something a model train might trundle through, the crisp white buildings and black rooftops encircled with perfect pine trees.
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In the 1950s, cities began to build massive complexes of clustered towers encircled by plots of land closed off to through streets.
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Earlier on Friday, a Turkish security official said Turkey's observation posts in Idlib will remain in place and function despite being encircled.
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The place was filled with refuse, as were the six sheds that peppered the property, and encircled by tons of colored gravel.
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Impact: The annexation would reshape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and would reduce any future Palestinian state to an enclave encircled by Israel.
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He said ADF troops had encircled a government army truck near Nkambe after it was overturned by a roadside bomb on Saturday.
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But they still respond to chemical signals sent out by genes as they grow into a tubelike body and tentacle-encircled maw.
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The trip would demand some trespassing — most of the ponds are encircled, or nearly, by private land — but of a relatively mild degree.
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In Bouake, the epicenter of the army revolt this month, members of the mutiny encircled the gendarmes' base to head off protests there.
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Here you'll find jungle pools encircled by lush flora, intertwining slides, a Tarzan pool with a rope swing, and a swim-up bar.
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They&aposre known for their grayish-brown color and their unique heads, which are "nearly encircled with enormous gill slits," the NOAA says.
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For weeks Iraqi troops, Shia militias and Kurdish fighters, backed by Western special forces and American-led coalition warplanes, have gradually encircled Mosul.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitoring group said rebels had withdrawn there after being nearly encircled by the army.
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The Opportunity rover has been incommunicado since a massive dust storm encircled the planet last summer, knocking it out of commission, possibly forever.
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Protesters encircled counterprotesters at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus on Friday night.
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We huffed and puffed in rhythm with them, held hands as we encircled them, and then walked off, single-file, into the darkness.
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A week after arriving, the Germans under Hindenburg encircled and destroyed the Russian Second Army at the Battle of Tannenberg, taking 92,000 prisoners.
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Last year in testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress, he reported that Beijing felt increasingly encircled.
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Falluja, the first Iraqi city to fall to Islamic State in January 2014, contains several hundreds militants and is encircled by Iraqi forces.
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After the ceremony, the athletes encircled Mutko in the middle of the green field for almost an hour, expressing their grievances and worries.
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Construction workers encircled the lagoon with poles and strung ropes between them on the same shoreline where the 2-year-old was attacked.
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Above the window where one of our machine guns is peeking outside, there is a poster of a lake encircled by snowcapped mountains.
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She applies a little lipstick, adjusts the Ace bandage on her wrist and sits down at an electric keyboard encircled by Christmas lights.
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Four peacock-blue tapered candles encircled a bouquet of white anemones, the centerpiece in a table set with Year & Day Midnight-colored plates.
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President Yahya Jammeh has ruled Gambia, a small country almost encircled by Senegal, for two decades since seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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If this is a memorial, as the title suggests, it's a grim one: comprised of trashed remnants of consumption, encircled by alcoholic residue.
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Where Sunnis hold on to power, as in the Gulf states, they feel encircled by a hostile Iran and abandoned by an indifferent America.
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CLEVELAND — Scores of police officers encircled several groups of dozens of protesters just outside Quicken Loans Arena on the Republican National Convention's first night.
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Five hills known as the rim of Mecca encircled the Grand Mosque and the Kaaba, or House of God, located in the city center.
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The forces encircled Afrin and also captured "areas of critical importance" in the region as of Monday, the Turkish military said in a statement.
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These are areas where you are literally encircled by government forces or, in a few cases, by the Islamic State or armed opposition groups.
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There was a pregnant woman in a grand robe, and a white power symbol was painted on the floor—a cross encircled in red.
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In early 2014, Chandler took a call while sitting at her desk, encircled by stacks of case files and pictures of her toddler twins.
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It showed the South China Sea, with most of the waters encircled with the "nine-dash line" that has long represented China's claims there.
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The Conair Double-Sided Lighted Makeup Mirror is perfect for your everyday makeup needs, with its two-sided mirror encircled by a bright light.
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This will be supported by a 20-foot-tall column, encircled by a snake with its head erect and tongue hissing at the book.
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The authenticity of her discoveries remain shrouded in uncertainty, like a mound of alleged lunar dust in New Forest, England, encircled by tiny rockets.
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An encircled number on the first app's icon shows you how many are grouped together, and you can drag the whole batch at once.
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Putin and Erdogan held talks in Moscow after Syrian army troops encircled another Turkish military post in the town of Morek earlier this month.
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David Dahlberg — Fire prevention technician who saved 62 people, including children and staff members, when a Southern California wildfire encircled their camp last July.
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At its peak along the path of totality, the moon became a dark disc, encircled all the way around by a bright, white light.
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That state, as envisioned by a map included in the plan, would for the most part be encircled by Israel, and is not contiguous.
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In one neighborhood, a giant stream of cars encircled a Chick-fil-A that had enough workers and food to open the drive-through.
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Braves 8, Mets 1203 A Dickensian fog encircled Citi Field before the first pitch of the Mets' game against the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.
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Though the compound is encircled by a wall, it was low enough for people to peer over, which is how the hisba saw her.
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But an offensive by the Syrian army, backed by Iranian militias and heavy Russian air cover, has encircled the rebels and eroded their gains.
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Ordinarily, their pronged attention encircled him like a crown of thorns, making him self-conscious, causing red fear to leak into his inner vision.
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On Wednesday, after a months-long advance through central and eastern Syria, the Syrian army and allied Shi'ite militias encircled and attacked Albu Kamal.
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As a result, the paranoia has intensified in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, which sees itself as increasingly encircled by its old enemy.
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Only seven hospitals remain in east Aleppo, some of them only partially functional, and hundreds of wounded are trapped in the encircled city, she said.
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Federal agents have encircled the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, where an unknown number of heavily armed militiamen are still holed up.
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The Syrian government and its Russian ally have made regular aid drops into the encircled zone, where about 200,000 people live, lacking food and medicine.
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Plus, Mars was recently gripped by a dust storm that encircled the planet in June and July that likely boosted the cloud's visibility and size.
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Some militants were able to flee Sirte before it was encircled and are likely to try to reactivate elsewhere in Libya, officials and fighters say.
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More broadly, New Delhi is concerned about being encircled if Beijing does build strong relations with neighboring countries such as Pakistan and Myanmar, Prasad continued.
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" As he sang, a trio of blue angels encircled him like a wreath: "Don't eat the pictures, no, no, no/When you go to museum!
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MEXICO CITY — Municipal police officers encircled the bus, detonated tear gas, punctured the tires and forced the college students who were onboard to get off.
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In July, the government, backed by Russia, encircled the eastern half of the city, succeeding in cutting off supply routes and putting it under siege.
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Helpless and wracked with survivor's guilt, he watched from afar as Serbian forces encircled his beloved Sarajevo and besieged it over four sniper-tormented years.
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"It's basically cutting losses at this point" since Assad and rebel forces have the northwest region encircled, Melissa Dalton, a former Pentagon official, tells Axios.
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Last year, a judge blocked the city from taking down the statues, which are encircled by orange plastic fencing and are off-limits to residents.
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Tiny diamonds glistened in her teeth, and a half-dozen jeweled tennis bracelets encircled her wrists, each, for the artist, an individual badge of success.
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Moulaye Guindo, mayor of the nearby town of Bankass, said armed men dressed as traditional Donzo hunters, encircled and attacked Ogossagou, killing about 60 people.
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Troops encircled the home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and his supporters tried to fight them off with sticks.
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U.S.-backed forces encircled the city after closing the militants' last way out from the south, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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Still another reads one of the papers, which shows a map of the surrounding area encircled by arrows and ominous words of warning in English.
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That confrontation was the point, a means of cementing his authority at home by playing up the notion of an encircled, perpetually menaced Russian state.
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It was last valued at $2.3 billion following an investment round led by Iconiq Capital, and has since been encircled by rumors of going public.
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The watch's gem-encircled dial is surrounded by a 212-inch cuff laden with still more diamonds and styled in the shape of outstretched wings.
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His head, encircled by an ornate doily-like gold halo, is covered by a shimmering sign of black protection, style, and beauty: the du-rag.
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"They have now, with our support and that of our 68-country coalition, encircled Mosul and they're beginning to move into parts of Mosul," she added.
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French Guiana, or Guyane, is a melting pot of cultures, languages and traditions if there ever was one, encircled by the Caribbean and an irrepressible jungle.
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Details: The UAE, which has driven a military campaign that encircled the port and city, describes the Stockholm meeting as a "last chance" for the Houthis.
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ANSA reported that the quake damaged the church of St. Joseph in Jesi, a town encircled by medieval walls southwest of the coastal city of Ancona.
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Shaffer's new hardware appeared to have a vintage feel, consisting of one center stone encircled by many smaller stones and set on a yellow-gold band.
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Turkish authorities encircled the base, cut off the power supply and temporary closed the airspace around Incirlik as they fought off the coup launched on Friday.
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The capital's population is projected to grow by 9% between 2016 and 2026, but the city is encircled by green-belt land, where development is prohibited.
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In the same way that Trump's off-putting manner has seemingly helped to lift President Obama's climbing favorability, it has belatedly encircled Romney in a halo.
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Hadi's exiled government has been requesting humanitarian access for Taiz, a divided city largely encircled by the Houthi rebels who overran Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in 2014.
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Here, a ceramic bowl is encircled by waddling geese (evoking the nursery rhyme), and a late-18th-century tall-case clock has its own audio component.
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The big picture: As China ramps up its investments in South Asia through its trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative, India feels increasingly encircled — and threatened.
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On your profile, in the top right corner you'll see the encircled clock icon, which opens your archive where only you can see posts you've archived.
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Around Christmas, her mother found her on the floor, her head encircled by a halo of blood that had clearly come from her mouth and nose.
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Damascus has denied mounting any such attack and said the rebels in Douma, who are massively outgunned and completely encircled, were collapsing and spreading false news.
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At La Villette, a former slaughterhouse in the center of Paris, a narrow stage encircled the auditorium, putting the audience in the middle of the action.
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Under its deals with Russia and Iran, Turkey's military has a dozen posts in the Idlib region, including one that Syrian government forces encircled this month.
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It's two crispy layers of communion-thin coconut wafers sandwiching vanilla ice cream, topped with warm brûléed bananas and encircled by two sauces, vanilla and caramel.
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Backed by Russian bombers, Syrian forces have encircled several Turkish observation posts in the northwestern province of Idlib — posts established by agreements aimed at reducing violence.
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It said the Syrian army had encircled and was close to capturing Maarat al-Numan, an urban center 33 km (20 miles) south of Idlib city.
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Deep in the valleys forged by the waters of Asia's Red River, a series of colorful mountain villages are encircled by fields of towering rice terraces.
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If your screen remains in the vertical or portrait orientation, swipe up from the bottom to open the Control Center and tap the encircled lock icon.
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The Medusa ($170,000) shows her disembodied head encircled by fanged snakes while the Arachne ($240,000) features black diamonds and a reverse-engraved intaglio of a spider.
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This week, thousands of residents and vacationers in southeastern Australia were forced to evacuate to shorelines as bush fires encircled communities and razed scores of buildings.
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State media said the bomber had been spotted and pursued by the security forces and set off the bomb after he had been encircled in the area.
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The ancient cemetery included a large stone-encircled platform measuring 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter above a large pit that was used to bury the dead.
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The children were encircled by gunmen for 22 hours in the buses meant to take them out of the crumbling enclave, until the deal was finally sealed.
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Little is expected of him; he stands still, self-consciously, in glasses, a T-shirt, and medium-wash jeans, encircled in the lunchroom by the entire school.
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Syrian troops have encircled rebels and a Turkish military post in northwest Syria in an offensive to reclaim territory and towns they lost early in the war.
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Several police officers, some with their guns drawn and one restraining a dog, encircled Simone as he crawled out of his car, the news helicopter video shows.
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" Behind the clinic's receptionist is the agency logo, encircled in chains, with a crest bearing the Latin phrase for "Do as we say, not as we do.
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The Turkish military has pushed the YPG militia back from the border and nearly encircled it with advances on the western and eastern flanks of Afrin town.
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In addition to five bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a generous playroom, it also had a courtyard encircled by sliding glass doors at its center.
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They'd picked a shady spot on the side of the road for a picnic when suddenly men carrying Kalashnikovs encircled them and unleashed a hail of bullets.
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The Syrian government troops backed by Russian air power completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo city last week, cutting off all supply lines to those areas.
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David Dahlberg, a fire prevention technician in southern California saved 62 children and staff members from a raging wildfire that had encircled their camp in July 2017.
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The evacuation deal for Tahrir al-Sham to surrender also includes allowing people to leave two pro-government Shi'ite villages, which the insurgents have encircled in Idlib.
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Islamabad fears an Indian-dominated or closely allied Afghanistan would leave it encircled and vulnerable in any potential conflict, according to a report by the Rand Corporation.
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But in one event near Dayton, Ohio, Secret Service agents briefly encircled the candidate after a man leapt over a security barrier and rushed toward the stage.
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One suggestion made us laugh: Pins featuring a black and white photo of Mueller's smiling face, encircled with red and pink hearts (price tag: $3 on Etsy).
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The forces had encircled the jihadist group's stronghold in the Old City of Mosul, where the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque is located, on Tuesday, they said.
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A large, boisterous group of peaceful protesters has encircled the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, where Thursday night's GOP Debate on Fox News was to be held.
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You can set up similarly regular alerts in the Reminder app by tapping the encircled "i" on a reminder to get to the time and repeat settings.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization that reports on the war, said an estimated 700,000 people in Afrin and nearby were now encircled.
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In Afrin, too, tens of thousands of civilians have fled in recent days, as Turkish troops encircled the city but left a corridor open to the south.
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To see the Markup tool bar and its other shortcuts for annotating PDF files, click the encircled pen icon on the right side of the Preview window.
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I was going to dive straight into Tai Nui's tears — the wave pool, which stretches from the volcano's base, encircled by white sand — but it was lunchtime.
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Plus, Bloomberg has other reasons to be focusing on California: He is skipping the early voting states and has encircled the Golden State as a major priority.
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You can also add people to your V.I.P. list by tapping the encircled "i" on the right side of the V.I.P. mailbox line in the Mailboxes list.
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Lesotho, which is encircled by South Africa, has a history of coups and political instability that has often led its bigger neighbor to intervene and restore order.
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That uninhabited area is encircled by a restricted zone with intermediate contamination, and an outer zone that is inhabited because radiation levels there have been deemed safe.
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The militiamen said they would not allow anyone out until rebel groups had ended their siege of Fouaa and Kfarya, two encircled Shiite enclaves in Idlib Province.
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Phil Stern (Steve Carell) is a Hollywood agent, and we first meet him in a tuxedo, beside his pool, encircled by the beau monde of his trade.
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The people he surrounds himself with will matter quite a lot, and so far he isn't distancing himself from the odd ducks who encircled him during his campaign.
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Then, when the town was virtually encircled, Russian battle tanks and rockets with names like "hail" and "hurricane" wiped out hundreds of Ukrainian troops, obliterating their hilltop position.
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Other insurgents, mainly the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, have also encircled more than 12,000 people in isolated pro-government towns in northern Syria, like Fouaa and Kfarya.
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Earlier this week, the army and its allies encircled the IS militants after advancing southward to join up with their forces near al-Sukhna town in Homs province.
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For "I'll Show You," another Skrillex dance-pop production, Bieber stood in the middle of an even larger case of emotion, as a whirlwind of lights encircled him.
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The Syrian army said it had encircled the village of Mughr al Meer at the foothills of Mount Hermon as troops moved toward Beit Jin amid fierce clashes.
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The comedian was encircled by his 10 children Tuesday in a holiday family photo that included his fiancee, Paige Butcher, along with her mother and his mom, Lillian.
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Other insurgents, mainly the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, have also encircled more than 12,000 people in isolated pro-government towns in northern Syria, like Foua and Kfarya.
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This move has also effectively encircled FSA-controlled desert territory stretching to the Jordanian and Iraqi borders and close to the Tanf garrison where U.S. forces are based.
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But, with the rebels again gaining ground, Mr Assad's forces in their side of the city—and the 1.2m civilians under their control—now risk being encircled themselves.
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Sunni rulers, especially the Al Sauds, see themselves encircled by malign Shias, from Iran's perceived attempt to stir up Shias in Bahrain to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
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Now he was in another conflict, part of a six-man squadron dispatched to defend a U.S. Marine division encircled by 100,20133 Chinese troops at the Chosin Reservoir.
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One painting in the show finds leafless trees in a grassy lot flanked by an empty street and distant buildings and almost encircled overhead by a highway ramp.
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FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS As time ran out, Breeden stretched his stomach, which would soon be encircled by the oyster-festooned championship belt.
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It has mushroomed into a widespread investigation that has encircled high profile figures in Brazil's government and private sector, including whether some companies profited from lucrative government contracts.
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But they are lashing out like a cornered dog: we're stronger, more organized, have the might of coalition airstrikes on our side, and have almost completely encircled Raqqa.
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A forest ranger named Ed Pulaski was among those encircled by the fire, and he feared death was as certain as the smoke that blotted out the sun.
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Other Gossip: • One of the most powerful scenes comes when Janine is encircled by other handmaids who insult her as she's forced to recount a brutal gang rape.
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Madaya is besieged by pro-Syrian government forces, while the two villages in Idlib province - of al-Foua and Kefraya - are encircled by rebels fighting the Syrian government.
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An extended, violent siege at Polytechnic University, where police have encircled students and activists, have raised tensions in the city to a new high over the past week.
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In Batemans Bay, four hours north, residents sat on folding chairs along the beach, life rafts at the ready, as a fire encircled the town and burned homes.
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The LNA, which has been trying to consolidate its grip on eastern Libya after taking Benghazi last year, has encircled Derna and launched occasional air raids over the city.
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"Dunhuang III," at 4.5 x 8.5 feet, is dominated by a painted border done partially in gold leaf, which is in turn encircled by a writhing, scorched-black rim.
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Madaya, a rebel-held town encircled by government troops and Iranian-backed, pro-government militia fighters, is one of several Syrian communities where civilians are besieged, Mr. Hillo said.
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In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, al-Abadi said Mosul was now completely encircled and that the speed with which the area was secured surpassed his expectations.
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Protests are rare in Gambia, a sliver of territory almost encircled by Senegal, where President Yahya Jammeh has ruled for two decades since seizing power in a bloodless coup.
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"Al-Abadi said the battle is settled and the remaining pockets of ISIS are encircled in the last inches of the city," his media office said in a statement.
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Theo van Doesburg pictured himself from behind, encircled his head with the high-Dada motto "I am against everything and everyone," in French, and signed it with a pseudonym.
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Syria and Russia, its key military backer, announced the creation of the three initial corridors on Thursday, after Syrian forces encircled the city and cut off rebel supply lines.
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In events echoed in other towns in the southeast, armed youths dug trenches and laid explosives in Diyarbakir's ancient Sur district that is encircled by towering, Roman-era walls.
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The officers slowly encircled a barn at the back of the property, with their hands clenched tightly around their weapons and their eyes scanning incessantly for potential booby-traps.
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At FutureWorld in Toronto, when he finished his presentation, I snapped a few photos quickly of his red-LED eye glowing, but I was soon encircled by Eyeborg fans.
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While the wall dividing East and West Berlin was only 28 miles long, an additional 75 miles of wall encircled West Berlin, which was totally surrounded by East Germany.
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You can also adjust how a site behaves by clicking the padlock icon (or the encircled "i" icon) next to the site's address at the top of the window.
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Mr. Netanyahu cited President Trump's support in announcing the move, which would reshape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reduce any future Palestinian state to an enclave encircled by Israel.
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At the time, ISIS was about to lose control of the Iraqi city of Mosul and its so-called capital Raqqa had been nearly encircled by US-backed forces.
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Keep reading for a countdown of the 11 best small cities to move to in 2020, from a vineyard-encircled city in Italy to a surfing spot in Japan.
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The audience will be encircled by speakers broadcasting sounds below the range of human hearing, manipulated by the musicians of the International Contemporary Ensemble, as singers mutter incomprehensible warnings.
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Early plans by a design team led by the French architects Coldefy & Associés call for a memorial at the site of the club, which would be encircled by water.
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In the north of the country, on another main front, Turkey's military said it had encircled the town of Afrin, a big advance in its offensive against Kurdish fighters.
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"More Near (V)," a blue-toned field encircled by diagonal strokes resembling black sunbeams, fully embraces its trapezoidal format, the paint reaching all four edges of the quirkily cut sheet.
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The Syrian government and its Russian allies make regular aid drops into the encircled city and there are frequent air strikes on IS targets in and around Deir al-Zor.
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It was not clear what had happened beforehand in a room at a convention centre where Le Pen was encircled by reporters and camera crews covering her presidential election campaign.
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For more than five centuries, Barga had been an exclave of, first, the Republic of Florence and later the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, encircled by a hostile Duchy of Lucca.
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THE victory of Israel over the Arab armies that encircled it in 1967 was so swift and absolute that, many Jews thought, the divine hand must have tipped the scales.
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It was not clear what had happened beforehand in a room at a convention center where Le Pen was encircled by reporters and camera crews covering her presidential election campaign.
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In the IS-encircled pocket in Deir al-Zor, news of the army's approach prompted people to take to the streets to celebrate, governor Mohammed Ibrahim Samra said by phone.
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The pool is encircled by tall banana palm trees, with a glass-covered pool house that will have guests clamoring to stay over, perfect for our tropical umbrella drink parties.
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After studying the genetic codes of algae that did well in warm waters, his team began injecting those types of algae into the tiny and tentacle-encircled mouths of polyps.
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In the end, it took one of the most intense dust storms ever observed on Mars—a tempest that encircled the entire planet—to stop the rover in its tracks.
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Islamic State controls nearly all of Deir al-Zor province, with the army retaining the air base in the city and neighboring districts, which the jihadists encircled in July 2014.
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They found a house in the nearby town of Atherton in the style of an English country manor, encircled by hedges and white rose bushes, that suggested privacy and safety.
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As its last territory in Iraq's second city of Mosul falls to U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and its Syrian capital Raqqa is encircled, the group is increasingly desperate for legitimacy.
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He spent $50 on seven Little Caesars pizzas, drove to where detectives encircled the semi with flashing lights, and worked alongside a fireman at the scene to distribute the food.
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Iraqi forces and Shia paramilitary groups have almost completely encircled Hawija, with the exception of a path to Kirkuk from the west, which stretches out in front of the watchtower.
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The army has also completely encircled the rebel-held half of Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war, which has been divided into government and opposition-held zones for years.
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A graceful traffic roundabout encircled by restaurants, cafes and shops is now a sprawling expanse of medical tents, piles of food and other relief supplies, and stacks of building materials.
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The scenery would have been enough to draw me to the cordillera, with its upthrust layers of multicolored sedimentary rock set around a crater that's encircled by rugged river canyons.
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After advancing rapidly to the edge of the town, for the past few weeks they have been struggling to break down the resistance of militants encircled in the city centre.
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From a vantage point about 20 floors above, the revelers appeared to be tucked into block-long honeycombs encircled by uniformed officers and support workers dressed in bright red coveralls.
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Eager to expand audiences for racing, these stately farms, noted for their architecturally distinct barns and pastures encircled by double-railed fences, are throwing open the barn doors to tours.
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He instead cited old age as a reason for quitting as premier of the tiny, mountainous territory encircled by South Africa and which has a long history of political instability.
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The trees were encircled by stumps—the remains of earlier efforts to resprout—and their trunks were ringed with gashes, as if someone had been trying to slit them open.
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The caterer has also suggested the steak frites, a slender rectangle of beef encircled by a flat ribbon of fried potato that floats inches above it, anchored at the base.
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The regime has systematically encircled, blockaded and bombed the remaining pockets of rebel control in the west, from the capital Damascus up through the city of Homs to the Mediterranean coast.
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By staying on in the encircled Syrian town against all rational advice, Frans van der Lugt bore witness to the suffering of its civilians and to atrocities committed by all parties.
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The pool itself is encircled by angular, bird-like umbrellas, crisp white-cushioned lounge chairs, and wooden mini-peninsulas that jut out from the exterior of the pool into its waters.
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That is because the town is controlled by anti-Assad rebels and has been encircled by pro-government forces, including Iranian-backed Hezbollah units, with barbed wire, land mines and snipers.
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The talks are complex and sensitive, involving discussions between Iran and rebel groups because Zabadani and Madaya are encircled mainly by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia that supports Mr. Assad.
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"The Turkish observation posts are not constituted to defend themselves and at least one of them has been encircled by Syrian regime forces," said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli from the German Marshall Fund.
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In July, regime forces encircled rebel-held parts of Aleppo, mostly in the city's east, creating a stranglehold that cut the population off from basic food, water, medical and fuel supplies.
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Cantwell's charges stem from the tiki-torch march through the UVA campus that night of August 11, which ended at a statue of Thomas Jefferson encircled by a few dozen counterprotesters.
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As a child of the 1990s, I remember the cartoon depictions of world peace in virtually every classroom, in which smiling children from different nations encircled the Earth, hand-in-hand.
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The almost definitely pregnant super model was leaving a spa in L.A. when she whipped out her left hand and brandished what appears to be a huge emerald encircled by diamonds.
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As we navigate a world that is atomised by social media, riven by partisanship and encircled with nuclear warheads, it becomes critical to recognise and manage the pitfalls of our psychology.
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The copper coffee chambers are encircled by the curved escalator, which wraps around and leads the eye all the way up to the skylight at the top of the fourth floor.
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This offensive has left Aleppo basically encircled: the 300,000 to 400,000 Syrians in rebel-held parts of the city will only get food and medicine if Assad lets them have it.
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Open the photo you want to tag, click the Info icon — which looks like an encircled "i" — and choose the option in the information box to edit or assign a location.
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Also boosting West Side parkland next year will be Waterline Square, a nearly three-acre spread on West 61st Street by the Hudson River encircled by three condo-and-rental towers.
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Size: 2504,2222 square feet Price per square foot: $22880 Indoors: Partially encircled by a channel with spring-fed water, like a moat, the house is approached by way of a bridge.
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Last year the government closed Maya Bay, the cliff-encircled Eden made famous in the film "The Beach", to allow its ecosystem to recover from the tourist onslaught of past years.
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The group is also threatened with the loss of its de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa, which is encircled by Arab and Kurdish fighters supported by the United States.
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In Harvey's oil on wood panel painting "Ghost of Penn Station" (2017), an exquisitely rendered, yet lifeless, free-floating version of the original Penn Station is encircled by milky, dripping whites.
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Plus, Assad appears set on continuing his Aleppo offensive, where the Syrian army, backed by Russia's air force, has virtually encircled rebels and severed their main supply route to the Turkish border.
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Government troops and their Lebanese and Iranian allies fully encircled the countryside north of Aleppo and cut off the main supply route linking the city to Turkey in the last 24 hours.
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Sarkozy, the president Fillon served, was encircled by scandals throughout his presidency – including allegations that aides and close allies had benefitted from kickbacks from the sale of submarines to Pakistan in 1994.
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At a clearing encircled by more members of the cloaked horde, clouds take toothy serpent shapes and obscure the white of Sampson's enormous desert moon, but nothing can dampen the menace below.
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Diyarbakir is seen by many of Turkey's 15 million Kurds as their cultural capital, and Sur is the warren of streets in its ancient heart, encircled by towering Roman-era basalt walls.
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Government forces in July encircled the rebel-held part of the city in a siege that cut residents off from basic supplies of food, water, fuel and medicine, spawning a humanitarian crisis.
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The IS-linked Amaq news agency said the group had launched 10 suicide attacks on advancing forces near Mosul and that Peshmerga forces had encircled five villages but failed to take them.
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At Bloomsbury, the orbit that encircled both sisters included E. M. Forster, economist John Maynard Keynes, and, of course, the art critic Clive Bell and the writer Leonard Woolf, their respective husbands.
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Since Thursday, eastern Aleppo has been completely encircled, bracing for a starve-or-surrender siege like the ones government forces have used to take back other rebellious areas, and intense bombing continues.
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The two are at the center of a media frenzy on Capitol Hill, where they were encircled by dozens of reporters this week as they made their way through the Senate basement.
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They encircled him and "came at me with fists," Mr. Lockett said, leaving him with a black eye that remained swollen for weeks and a greater fear of living on the streets.
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Last week, SDF leaders announced their forces had ISIS completely encircled in Raqqa, and on Sunday its fighters entered the city from the south for the first time – crossing the Euphrates River.
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A marble frieze on the wall that encircled the statue showed columns of helmeted troops and tanks rolling past swamps and palmyra trees, the spiky palm indigenous to Sri Lanka's far north.
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Shacar appears amidst foliage lit by soft pink and blue lights in one scene, and encircled by mirrors in another; Rubin's subtly rave-influenced beat, meanwhile, creates a mood of electric anticipation.
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Last week up to 100 soldiers and police were killed in a series of ambushes as they tried to escape to the provincial capital from positions encircled by the Taliban for days.
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The Hambantota port, like Gwadar, is part of a network of harbors Beijing is developing in Asia and Africa that have spooked India, which fears being encircled by China's growing naval power.
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There was an apple green cable coat crafted from molded rubber; a flouro pink slipdress encircled by acrylic swirls like Saturn's rings; and a skirt made entirely of multicolor, clacking plastic tags.
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That buildup has been widely seen as a response to the 2014 crisis, in which large Chinese Coast Guard vessels encircled wooden Vietnamese fishing boats near the controversial oil rig, embarrassing Hanoi.
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Raging bushfires across southwestern Australia are taking a big toll on tourism, reducing some resorts to ghost towns in New South Wales in peak season as vacationers fear being encircled by blazes.
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We followed the waterfall below ground, riding an escalator to the basement levels of Jewel, where the water barrels through an immense clear column encircled in part by tables for nearby eateries.
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Council officials said with the battle still raging in a small, encircled area of the city center and countless explosives rigged by militants in areas they abandoned, reconstruction has not yet begun.
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How and where people stand—whether a wife faces her husband or has her back to him, or a son is alone in a corner or encircled by siblings—embodies their relationship.
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A well-armed security bubble has encircled much of downtown Washington, as almost 30,000 local, state and federal officials work to ensure that the transfer of power goes off without a hitch.
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The studio was so strong, in fact, that people in Hollywood referred to it by a nickname: "the Mountain," a reference to its logo of a snow-capped peak encircled by stars.
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Yet the unique way "Roma" was released — a three-week exclusive run in theaters before arriving online, with Netflix refusing to disclose ticket sales — has left Mr. Cuarón's film encircled in questions.
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The unicorn, with its halo-encircled horn, rears up its hind legs as if battling evil forces, surrounded by impasto patterns and circles, decorative landscape elements, and full-to-bursting, overdone blooms.
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Iraqi Kurdish forces are eating away at its territory east of Mosul in northern Iraq; and a variety of Iraqi groups, including the army, have encircled ISIS-held parts of Fallujah, near Baghdad.
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In "Red States, Blue States" (2017), inspired by the recent election, a medieval map of the world places Rome at the center, encircled by Europe and the Middle East, in a disorienting manner.
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"Resorting to a concerted aerial campaign coupled with ground forces that encircled eastern Aleppo city, government forces and their allies employed brutal tactics to force the armed groups to surrender," the report said.
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In the war in Syria, where a government offensive with backing from Russia's air force has nearly encircled the opposition-controlled districts of Aleppo, Russia has deployed forces under the designation of training.
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The letter "S" was printed on it four times and encircled with a marker — symbols he said were meant to alert airline crew that a passenger must go through an extra security check.
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"They encircled them in four-wheel drives from the back and confronted them with vehicles coming from the White Nile bridge, forcing some of the protesters to enter the military hospital," he said.
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Residents have been living under siege since they were gradually encircled by Syrian government troops and their allies in the spring, with the final supply lines into the enclave cut off last month.
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Coalition net slipping over the city Raqqa is almost entirely encircled by coalition-backed fighters called the Syrian Defense Forces, an alliance of mainly Kurdish fighters with some Arab Syrian rebels in tow.
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Backed by hundreds of Russian airstrikes, the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad and allied militias have almost completely encircled Aleppo in what humanitarian groups warn may lead to a major humanitarian crisis.
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While SDF troops have encircled Raqqa and breached the wall that surrounds the old city, Dillon said ISIS was using IED belts and increasingly armed drones to maintain their grip on the city.
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Backed by US air and artillery strikes, the coalition-supported Syrian Democratic Forces, a mixed group of Kurdish and Arab fighters, have recently encircled Raqqa, breaching the wall that surrounds the old city.
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Since Russia intervened in the war a year ago, the government's side has gained the upper hand on numerous fronts, including Aleppo, where the opposition-held sector has been completely encircled for weeks.
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The back of the second floor is filled with ficuses, each encircled by a leather bench, where customers can wait or sit next to Apple's "geniuses" as they work on the customers' gadgets.
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"The president did not get involved with the details, but he was absolutely aware of the interests that encircled the management at Petrobras," Amaral said in testimony that was released as recorded video.
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Government forces, with the aid of Russian airstrikes, encircled the rebel-held eastern districts in July, raising fears among aid groups of a prolonged siege that could affect hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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A U.S.-backed Kurdish-led coalition besieging the city on Thursday fully encircled it after closing the militants' last way out from the south, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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Encircled by maritime chokepoints including the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, it depends heavily on wheat imports from the Black Sea region which come via the Turkish Straits.
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After Friday's service, some in the crowd wandered across the park to Al Noor mosque, where mounds of flowers, paper garlands and mementos encircled trees and sat piled against the mosque's front fence.
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The last few months, as Assad's Russia-backed forces launched an offensive across southern Idlib, marked the lowest point yet for rebels who once controlled large parts of Syria and almost encircled Damascus.
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The swift communist offensive also encircled and overran outnumbered American positions, leaving heaps of dead in places like the Chosin Reservoir that American burial details never had a chance to record and inter.
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Out in Queens, Mr. Ai has encircled the Unisphere — the stainless steel globe that's the primary symbol of the 1964 World's Fair — with a running mesh lattice that rises to about knee height.
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The plan, if enacted, would spell disaster hopes for a two-state solution, taking land intended for a future Palestinian state, and leaving Palestinian territory in the West Bank completely encircled by Israel.
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Almost immediately, a handful of tricycle taxi drivers encircled them, warning Rivera and the others that the city was crawling with police and offering them rides to the river, about a mile away.
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The small tables are too small and the big ones, encircled by red-leather banquettes the size of living-room sofas, give you enough space to spread out a map while you eat.
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Robin, her 15-month-old son, was confronted by an astonishing sight: Protesters encircled the car with big grins to serenade him with the earworm song "Baby Shark" — complete with its playful dance.
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"Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world," Trump wrote, vowing there would be a "big price" to be paid for the attack.
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Set in what was once the Hôtel Lutetia pool, the store, which includes two pear-shaped wooden huts, sits under a sprawling glass roof and is encircled by Art Deco balconies and columns.
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What its captain, Jacob Roggeween, found was a Polynesian people long since cut off from the rest of humanity, covered in tattoos and encircled by mysterious stone faces erected all along the coast.
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The rebels are trying to break through a strip of government-controlled territory in the hope of reconnecting their area of control in the west of Syria with the encircled sector of eastern Aleppo.
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The love triangle murder case involving a new, younger wife - Maesaiah is 42 - allegedly killing a first wife has captivated citizens and triggered street protests in Lesotho, a mountain state encircled by South Africa.
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President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday his forces would continue the push into eastern Ghouta, a densely populated area of farmland and towns just outside Damascus which government forces have encircled since 2013.
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"They are encircled," said the army statement which made no mention of fighting closer to the heart of the Old City near the Abassiyin area where rebels said they also had launched an attack.
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Shaped by the same glacial forces as Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy was a replica of its sister valley in miniature: an idyllic meadow encircled by cascading waterfalls and 1,000-foot-tall, perfectly sheared granite walls.
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The Houthis and their pro-Saleh allies have encircled the city for a year, fighting a coalition of mostly local groups, including ultraconservative Sunni groups and Al Qaeda fighters, known collectively as the resistance.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organisation that reports on the war, said Turkish forces and their Syrian militia allies had encircled an estimated 700,000 people in Afrin and nearby areas.
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For the Venice Biennale in 2011, he created "Octfalls," a series of screens projecting close-up videos and audio of waterfalls, which encircled the viewer and alternated on and off at seemingly random intervals.
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All the propaganda sent from Berlin to Italian newspapers points to the well-nigh encircled Serbs as the next folk scheduled to be converted by Axis diplomacy and military might from their precarious neutrality.
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Demonstrations at Trump rallies persisted, leading to a panicked moment near Dayton, Ohio, when Secret Service agents briefly encircled the candidate after a man leapt over a security barrier and rushed toward the stage.
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The photographs included one of her pointing to the sky while she was encircled by the animal's corpse during the hunting trip Ms. Talley took in June 2017, The Courier-Journal of Kentucky reported.
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Mr. Erdogan has called for Syrian government and Russia forces to cease their offensive in Idlib and to pull back from Turkish positions, which have been encircled and cut off by Syrian government forces.
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The withdrawal of the fighters relieved the capital of a nearly six-year rebel chokehold, though Damascus is now encircled by wastelands of rubble, and thousands of people have flocked to nearby displacement camps.
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Turkey's military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a substantial advance in Ankara's offensive against Kurdish fighters across its southern border.
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Reminiscent of a crab more than a mermaid, the latter is an arrangement on the floor of three thick braids of khaki-colored polyester rope, each one with loose ends encircled by pincer-like strands.
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Outside the hotel, in a tree-shaded yard, trucks will dispense New Jersey-brewed beers to guests and passers-by, though an adjacent 50-foot hedge-encircled swimming pool will be mostly reserved for guests.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed forces on Thursday fully encircled the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa after closing the militants' last way out from the south, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
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Some 100 migrants broke a Serbian police cordon and tried to enter Croatia across fields, but were stopped by police forces from both countries who encircled them in the no-man's-land, Reuters witness said.
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The encircled town of Madaya, also near Damascus, made headlines in December 2015 when photos of emaciated residents—more than three dozen of whom have died of starvation since—circulated widely in the international media.
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Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air power, completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo last month, cutting off all supply lines to those areas and leaving them with only weeks worth of food.
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A 12-year-old boy who was stranded on a fallen tree encircled by rushing floodwaters was rescued successfully in Phoenixville, Pa. It's unclear how the boy became stranded or if he suffered any injuries.
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Encircled in diamonds, speculation abounds that the new accessory is an eternity ring which is traditionally given after the birth of a first child or another major milestone such as a one-year wedding anniversary.
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Lower Manhattan may eventually be encircled by a berm called The Big U that provides a waterfront promenade and doubles as protection against hurricanes like Superstorm Sandy, which flooded New York's financial district in 2012.
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Such scenes are occurring across Santa Cruz, a city of 20083m people that is laid out like a bicycle wheel: 22008 avenues project like spokes from the centre, which is encircled by anillos, or rings.
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Low was a native of Scotland, and it was as if the Swilcan Burn on the first hole of the Old Course at St. Andrews encircled the entire green rather than merely guarding the front.
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Civilians in other encircled towns were also malnourished, Egeland said, singling out rebel-besieged Foua and Kefraya in Idlib and government-besieged Madaya near Damascus, which have not had U.N. food deliveries in 116 days.
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A civilian, who was not identified, died as security forces encircled the party headquarters of the opposition candidate, Jean Ping, early Thursday after hundreds of people had taken to the streets of the capital, Libreville.
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Once you set up your account on your phone, you can manage your funds by opening the Wallet app from the home screen, tapping the Apple Pay Cash card and tapping the encircled "i" icon.
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"Even Netanyahu's main rivals believe that any Palestinian entity that is established in the West Bank should be completely encircled by Israel, having no border with Jordan," said Nathan Thrall, an International Crisis Group analyst.
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You can also make a new note and tap the encircled plus (+) button in the tool bar to see a menu with a command for scanning a document into a note with the device's camera.
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ROME — Encircled by the monolithic statues that surround the Stadio Pietrangeli here, the considerably less statuesque David Goffin showed a different type of solidity that has put him in the top 6 of men's tennis.
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Here is a preview of who you'll see: David Dahlberg, a fire prevention technician, who saved 62 children and staff members from a blaze-encircled summer camp in July during the wildfires in Southern California.
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On the opening night of the 2019 season — which runs for eight Fridays through July 26 — women dressed as zebras paced the grounds on stilts, lawn chairs encircled an acrobat, and children were noticeably absent.
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BEIRUT, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The Syrian army encircled rebels in a cluster of towns in northwest Syria's Hama countryside, imposing a "choking siege" and marching deeper into the pocket, state-run Ikhbariya TV said on Friday.
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Declining internally, and increasingly encircled along both its eastern and western peripheries, Russia is far less capable of playing a constructive role in Eurasia's evolution than it was prior to its annexation of Crimea in 2014.
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The image of a convicted drug lord encircled in rhinestones may be jarring for some, but others feels it's a form of cultural iconography symbolizing the many contradictions of El Chapo idolatry and Mexican-American identity.
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan forces repelled an attempted ambush but lost at least eight of their men as their battle with Islamic State militants encircled in their former stronghold of Sirte resumed on Sunday, officials said.
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The incident occurred just before midnight on Friday evening when paparazzi encircled Tomlinson near a baggage carousel at the airport, where he had landed with a girlfriend after a flight from Las Vegas, People magazine reported.
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Even so, fewer than half of the 10 or so villages they had encircled had been fully cleared, in painstaking and potentially dangerous operations to ensure that no Islamic State fighters were hiding in the settlements.
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In the South Georgia town I grew up in, as in scores of other economically depressed cities across the Cotton Belt, large areas of stark poverty encircled and coexisted uneasily with pockets of country-club opulence.
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Here are a few of the people you'll see: David Dahlberg, a fire prevention technician, who saved 62 children and staff members from a blaze-encircled summer camp in July during the wildfires in Southern California.
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With his untidy gray hair and melancholy eyes encircled by shadows, he was known to hold forth from what his students called The Chair, which he, of ample girth, amply filled, surrounded by stacks of books.
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Its lightning-quick adoption by consumers and the small factory of meme makers, T-shirt designers, content producers (that's me!) and others that have encircled the drink provide a perfect portrait of brand success in 2019.
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The keyboard was German because I was living in West Berlin, which was still encircled by the Berlin Wall: The Soviet empire was still strongly in place, and was not to crumble for another five years.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fewer than 100 protesters remained holed up in a Hong Kong university on Thursday as riot police encircled the campus, with some activists still desperately searching for ways to escape while others hid.
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These instruments were used to map out the Van Allen radiation belt surrounding Earth, and to test out if the Moon was encircled with a similar ring of magnetically charged particles (it isn't, the mission found).
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels in Aleppo will soon be completely encircled, a Syrian army source said on Thursday, as the military continues operations near the city after cutting the insurgents' most important supply route from the Turkish border.
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There were severe water, food and medicine shortages, and electricity and water were completely cut off for the approximately 125,000 residents of Derna, which has been encircled since July 2017 by the Libyan National Army, it said.
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The attention to starvation as a weapon of war in Syria came this week as reports and stark images emerged of hungry civilians in Madaya, a rebel-held town encircled by government forces and pro-government militias.
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The town is located at the eastern edge of an Islamic State salient stretching 33 miles (55km) along the Turkish border, and could be encircled by any SDF thrust northwards from its positions further to the west.
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A small crowd encircled Nasir and exchanged farewells before a state worker drove the family to the bus waiting to transfer them to a reception center in Merignac on the outskirts of Bordeaux in distant southwestern France.
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Police encircled hundreds of female protesters to leave a public park in Al-Hoceima late on Saturday, impeding others from joining, as the women chanted "freedom, dignity and social justice", a Reuters reporter at the scene said.
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ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey's military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a substantial advance in Turkey's offensive against Kurdish fighters across its southern border.
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The picturesque town center, sprinkled with red-tile roofs on low-rise buildings reminiscent of the Austria-Hungary to which it once belonged, is encircled by tall, gray concrete housing blocks, a legacy of the Communist regime.
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New Delhi is worried that China will step up activities in the Indian Ocean where it is building infrastructure in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan, feeding India's anxiety about being encircled, Indian military sources and diplomats said.
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The British driver was so upset after dropping out of the race and failing to win what would have been his first title that as he was encircled by the media, he turned his back to them.
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If successful, the offensive would leave Islamic State fighters - and the 1.5 million civilians still living in Mosul - encircled by an advancing coalition of forces which seeks to crush the hardline Sunni militants in their Iraq stronghold.
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" The Zumba class in Orange Cove, a largely Latino community encircled by citrus fields in the Central Valley, is the result of an increasingly significant practice known as "shared use," also called "joint use" or "community use.
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"I will do whatever it takes, I will campaign as long as it takes," the Florida senator told a crowd of more than 7,000 people who encircled him on the sidelines of a high-school football field.
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But, despite Trump's declaration Thursday that the party appeared more unified than ever, members left Friday still encircled by Trump's own controversies and with plenty of disagreements about how the GOP will advance its business this year.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pre-empted the whole proposal this week with his pre-election promise to annex nearly a third of the occupied West Bank — reducing any future Palestinian state to an enclave encircled by Israel.
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This isn't a new series of tactics by the regime and Russia: they have previously talked about a ceasefire, before bombing, besieging and pursuing their military objectives -- eventually demanding that all human life leave an encircled area.
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Nearby, at the edge of the Alfina plateau, stands a castle encircled by fields—part of the landscape, between Orvieto and Lake Bolsena, in which Alice Rohrwacher, an Italian director, set her prize-winning film "The Wonders".
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That night, while Hallel slept, a young Palestinian named Mohammad Tra'ayra, who was in his late teens and lived in the nearby Arab village of Bani Na'im, managed to climb over the fence that encircled Kiryat Arba.
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" The 'Hunger Games' in Aleppo The Syrian military said on Wednesday that it would reduce the number of airstrikes on eastern Aleppo, having encircled rebel forces, "to allow civilians that want to leave to reach safe areas.
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Derna has long been encircled by forces loyal to east Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar, who are trying to wrest the city from a coalition of local fighters and Islamists known as the Derna Mujahideen Shura Council (DMSC).
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Both men said they had agreed on the importance of delivering aid to the city of Aleppo, whose opposition-held eastern sector has been encircled by Russian-backed Syrian forces for all but a short period since July.
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Britain's Princess Diana wore an engagement ring made from a blue oval sapphire from Sri Lanka encircled with diamonds, while Prince William's bride Kate Middleton wore a similar sapphire and diamond cluster, also using a Sri Lankan stone.
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In recent years, the White Rex logo — a helmeted warrior encircled by the "black sun," an occult symbol that's been adopted by neo-Nazis — has become an increasingly common sight in European gyms, fight clubs, and football terraces.
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LONDON — On Tunstall Road in Brixton, the once working-class, immigrant-heavy neighborhood where David Bowie was born, a mural depicts one of his alter egos, Aladdin Sane, encircled by electric planets, a lightning bolt across his face.
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Lesotho, a mountain state encircled by South Africa, three-quarters of which lies more than 1,800 metres above sea level, is one of the world's poorest countries and has one of Africa's highest levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence.
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Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government in Tripoli are three months into a campaign to oust Islamic State from their former North African stronghold and have encircled the militants in a shrinking section of the city center.
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With its counterattack, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, demonstrated its ability to stage assaults in Iraqi urban areas even as it became encircled in Mosul, the largest city it controls in Syria or Iraq.
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After Machado loafed out of the batter's box on a ground ball he hit Saturday in Game 373 of the National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers, he found himself encircled by reporters in the visiting clubhouse.
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Lesotho, a mountain state encircled by South Africa, three-quarters of which lies more than 1,800 meters above sea level, is one of the world's poorest countries and has one of Africa's highest levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence.
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The buildings, located in the Hung Hom district of Kowloon, sit like an imposing red island encircled by a ring of major roadways that are crisscrossed by pedestrian bridges and flyovers linking the university to the nearby neighborhood.
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Just as Edith Macefield's petite home in Seattle, a famed holdout which she refused to sell to developers, is now encircled by a massive commercial building (and threatened by demolition), the houses are statements of their owners' defiance.
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Syrians in Aleppo are posting final goodbyes online Syrians in Aleppo are posting final goodbyes online As Syrian government forces encircled the last sliver of rebel-held territory in Aleppo on Monday, trapped residents braced for the worst.
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Overnight fighting was focused in areas that control access to Aleppo city, where the rebel-held east has been besieged by Russian and Iranian-backed pro-government forces and completely encircled for all but a few weeks since July.
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On Thursday morning, as cars and travelers went back and forth across the two border cities on the bridge above, a group of immigrant men and a young boy talked and pointed to the razor wire that encircled them.
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Syrian government troops and their Lebanese and Iranian allies have fully encircled the countryside north of Aleppo and cut off the main supply route linking the city, Syria's largest before the war, to Turkey in the past 24 hours.
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Baghdad itself, which I have to pass through to get to the distant open border checkpoint, was once encircled by a great wall and dubbed the "Round City" by its founder, Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh al-Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad.
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In addition we are seeing nationalist, right wing governments in Hungary and Poland while the U.K. will start negotiating its exit from the E.U. All this internal potential political upheaval takes place while Europe is encircled by geopolitical dangers.
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Damascus, backed by Russia's air force and Iranian, Lebanese and Iraqi fighters, holds the upper hand in Syria's key battleground of Aleppo, having encircled rebel-held areas of the northern city for all but a brief period since July.
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Boxes completely encircled some sculptures, like one of a crouching Aphrodite from the third century B.C. At the other end of the room, the goddess of wisdom, Athena, kept an eye on the metal drawers stacked to her side.
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I was hoping he would do something symbolic to show the world his determination to make the changes necessary in order for the church to survive — perhaps prostrating himself encircled by survivors and asking for their prayers and forgiveness.
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It was discombobulating, after the prim modernity of the train, to plunge into Harar Jugol, about 120 acres of tight-knit alleyways, encircled by 15-foot walls, which is widely considered to be the fourth holiest site in Islam.
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Fattoria Sardi, family-owned for more than 200 years, occupies two antique farmhouses — a winery and a guesthouse encircled by grapevines where crimson clover and golden mustard flowers naturally fertilize the terrain for the vineyard's much-loved rosé wines.
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From there, one can choose from an array of natural tourmalines which come in a spectrum of colors from stormy sea green to grapefruit pink, around which rose-cut diamonds are encircled in either an oval or cushion cut.
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Mexican officials will be on high alert following the chaos in Culiacan last October, when cartel gunmen laid siege to the city and forced encircled security forces to free the detained son of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russian-backed Syrian troops have encircled a Turkish observation post as they approach the city of Maarat al-Numan in an offensive into the last significant rebel pocket of Syria, sources on both sides said on Tuesday.
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The authorities in Oregon encircled the federal wildlife refuge occupied for weeks by antigovernment protesters a day after a confrontation with other members of the group left its de facto spokesman, LaVoy Finicum, above, dead, and eight others under arrest.
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I also gave high marks to the classic Caesar salad and to the bruschetta, six toast rounds piled high with chopped tomatoes, basil and red onions, all of which encircled a mound of arugula, which could have used some dressing.
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"They cannot advance easily; even if the rebels are outnumbered they can easily strike any advancing troops from the three main entrances into the encircled valley," said Abu Mohammad al Qalamoni, a rebel fighter in contact with comrades inside the valley.
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In an effort to build affordable housing, developers and residents have continued to push into the state's wildlands, erecting homes encircled by dry brush, trees, and parched mountains, explained Kurt Henke, a retired chief with the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
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Spencer's list of events pointedly left off the August rally in which a neo-Nazi killed a counterprotester and injured dozens of others; other white supremacists also encircled and attacked anti-racist demonstrators with torches and pepper spray that weekend.
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So far there is no good explanation for this remarkable darkening, although by far the most intriguing possibility is that this sun is encircled by an alien megastructure (a so-called Dyson sphere) that occasionally blocks some of its light.
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The Russian bombing of Aleppo — Syria's largest city, which is now almost completely encircled by Mr Assad's ground forces — has continued over the course of the weekend, in spite of the ISSG pledge to begin an immediate rollback of military activities.
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If strapped into a small seat and encircled by angry men who profess him to be a mass-murderer—men who must logically be contemplating an offensive defence—I daresay Nissim, too, would have penetrating eyes and a scary look.
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In every war I have covered, from Beirut to Bosnia, I have listened to men (always men) recount moments that left shame — the terrorizing of a child in a quest for intelligence, the abandonment of a son encircled by the enemy.
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Before long he is racing the 5,000-meter in the 1936 Olympics and meeting Hitler, then enlisting in the Army Air Corps, crashing, spending a record 47 days on that shark-encircled raft and entering a hellish Japanese P.O.W. camp.
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Cohen's sentence, resulting from both the special counsel's investigation and a related case from Manhattan federal prosecutors, will be the most significant marker yet in the overarching Russia investigation, which has encircled Trump and numerous senior officials in his orbit.
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His other hand ran experimentally up her shirt, and Greer stood in shocked suspension for a moment as he found the convexity of her breast and encircled it, all the while looking her in the eye, not blinking, just looking .
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But the offensive by Syrian forces, Hezbollah and Shiite militias directed by Iran - all backed by Russian bombing raids - have reversed opposition gains on the ground and encircled rebels inside Aleppo, a strategic prize now divided between government and opposition control.
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At least 8,000 police officers in riot gear and a separate paramilitary police force that had encircled the approximately 2,000 protesters began trying to clear the protesters staging a sit-in on the main interchange in the city early on Saturday.
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Popova visited Birsk, Bashkortostan, in 1916, and the painting is a bird's-eye view of that city as an unfolding accordion, where origami rooftops are encircled by a curved wall that looks like a row of giant, marching tea cups.
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Once the flames have been extinguished, however, there will no doubt be an investigation into why so many victims apparently died after finding themselves cut off, encircled by fire and stranded along roads they took while trying to flee by car.
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Between the narrow side of the castle and the wall facing the city we stopped in front of a large well, some 30 feet in diameter, that was encircled by a wall that seemed to date back to the 19th century.
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Pro-government forces encircled Ghouta in April 2013 and "laid the longest running siege in modern history, steadily wearing down both fighters and civilians alike through a prolonged war of attrition", the report said, denouncing a "medieval form of warfare".
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Government forces backed by Russia have seized most of Deraa province in the campaign that got under way last month and on Monday encircled rebel-held parts of Deraa city and seized the entire Jordanian frontier, which was once in opposition hands.
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The venue's centerpiece was a huge outdoor courtyard, sandwiched between a vast warehouse known as the Great Hall and a smaller indoor space called the King's Hall and encircled by a 26 degree elevated walkway offering visitors panoramic views of New York City.
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The painting in this show that feels the most unencumbered, joyfully so, by the weight of history or current events is "Seraph" (2017), dominated by a pinkish-purple tree trunk encircled by light purple vines, against the variegated greens of the forest.
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When you have the app open on the tablet, tap the encircled question mark up in the top-right corner of the toolbar to enable the on-screen GarageBand help guide; much of the guide's information is also available on the web.
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If you&aposve ever stood in the totality of a solar eclipse , you&aposve seen something astonishing: the full width of the moon&aposs dark shadow blocking out the sun, perfectly encircled by the dim, wispy rays of the sun&aposs corona.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian army backed by Russian jets escalated bombing of the last rebel bastion on the eastern outskirts of Damascus as they prepared to break a siege of an army base encircled by opposition forces, residents and witnesses said on Wednesday.
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Masri is a 25-year-old photographer in Aleppo who documents the fatalism, fear and sometimes the defiance of tens of thousands of civilians who remain in rebel-held areas of the city now almost encircled by Syrian government forces and their allies.
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The SDF on Friday cut off the last route into the encircled town of Manbij from al-Bab after over a week of advances around that area, allowing it to lay siege to the large town from all directions, the monitor said.
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The tactics have succeeded in much smaller areas: in encircled suburbs of the capital, Damascus, and in rebel enclaves in the central city of Homs — first in the historic Old City and, most recently, last week, in the outlying neighborhood of Waer.
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According to one of the internal investigations, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, someone cut a hole in the fence that encircled the camp, about 50 feet from a United Nations sentry post staffed by Ethiopian soldiers.
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Insurgents effectively broke a month-long government siege of eastern, opposition-held Aleppo on Saturday, advancing against President Bashar al-Assad's forces and their allies and cutting off a strip of government-held territory to connect with fighters in the encircled sector.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who spoke to President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, said both countries had agreed steps to tackle militants in northwest Syria and "normalize" the situation there after a Syrian army offensive encircled rebel fighters and a Turkish military post.
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Instead we got Jon riding headlong into an obvious trap, Davos letting a mounted force be inexplicably encircled by pikemen, and Sansa forgetting(?) to mention that she'd ravened a letter to Littlefinger and a bunch of extra guys are heading their way.
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After Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled the trial to a close following the California Democrat's remarks, several senators including a couple of 230 presidential contenders encircled Schiff, his fellow House managers and their top aides with words of praise and congratulations. Sen.
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The murder case has triggered political turmoil in the tiny mountain kingdom of 2 million people, which is encircled by South Africa, whose soldiers have had to intervene in the past to restore order in a nation with a history of coups.
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Mr. Mugabe morphed into a caricature of dictatorship: vain and capricious, encircled by the flashy spending of his second wife and other family members, who lived in luxury at home and went on shopping sprees and long annual vacations in the Far East.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels have now encircled two border towns in northeast Syria held by the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces after a ground offensive that seized several villages around them, a spokesman for the rebels said on Thursday.
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More than 203 credentialed media encircled the court to capture every pass, every dribble, every shot of the King's firstborn, who would likely have worn an Irish jersey had the family not moved west so James could shine for the Los Angeles Lakers.
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The Batek, a hunter-gatherer people known to range for weeks in trackless rainforest, were deeded with a tuft of eight acres of "communal" forest; Kuala Koh, which sat adjacent to a massive forest, was now completely encircled by oil palm plantations.
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He was just lying there, pathetic, humiliated in front of this woman he wanted to prove himself to, and he watched them pause to snap on their own masks before the cop bent to him and encircled his wrists with the handcuffs.
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She had lived inside the group's territory for four years, married a fighter and had two children, both of whom she said died of malnutrition and were buried in ISIS's last remaining village in Syria, which has now been encircled by coalition forces.
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J. F. C. Fuller, a British fascist and mystic; Leonora Carrington's painting of a sorcerer with a diamond-shaped head and a four-armed pet monkey; and Paul Laffoley's Pop-style painting of signs of the zodiac encircled by a snake biting its own tail.
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During the first half of the day, Blake sported a plunging houndstooth jumpsuit by Chanel (she's a longtime friend of the brand) encircled with a chain belt and a quirky dice-motif clutch by the brand, and crystal-encrusted leopard-print Christian Louboutin pumps.
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That deadly semicircle that Ramsay's men formed around Jon Snow's army was inspired by the Roman Battle of the Cannae, in 216 BC. "The Romans get caught and encircled by Hannibal and just slaughtered," executive producer D.B. Weiss said during the "Inside the Episode" video.
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They fought with counterdemonstrators and menacingly encircled student activists who held the line at the statue of Thomas Jefferson — the image of the darker circle of students surrounded by the light from burning tiki torches becoming an image that traveled widely on social media.
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Mr. Rasoolyar posted an open letter to President Ashraf Ghani's government on the social media site, in which he deplored the precarious state of the military and police forces in Sangin District, who were short of food and ammunition and encircled by Taliban fighters.
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The four main characters, in fact, are penned in, their singing and screaming and dancing confined to a sand pit encircled by a low fence, which seems built as much for them as for the show's four-legged interloper, a frisky black pig named Daisy.
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There's the dramatic kipuka trails of Mauna Loa—often referred to as "living laboratories for evolution," thanks to the lava that encircled (but never touched) them, carving out tiny, isolated islands on which species could evolve without any breeding or genetic mixing with other populations.
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A scarf in the stars-and-stripes motif encircled his shoulders, and from his neck hung enough gold-and-diamond-encrusted chains to hobble Mr. T. Once he got behind a microphone, the huckster that lives within King animated his aged and weary frame.
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Military commanders said that — unlike in Mosul — they had encircled the city but left an opening in the security cordon, intentionally creating an escape corridor for the trapped fighters, who they hoped would flee into the open desert where they could be picked off.
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She feared she was going to be raped when a group of about 25 men encircled her and two friends and tried to pull down their skirts: "They were like animals ... It felt like 20,000 hands were touching me all at once," she said.
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He said he lost touch with his family as he moved from Mosul to the town of Bashiqa, where he ended up in encircled by Kurds in that house, waiting for Islamic State emirs to deliver on promises to send reinforcements that never came.
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AMMAN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels have now encircled two border towns in northeast Syria held by the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces after a ground offensive that seized several villages around them, a spokesman for the rebels said on Thursday.
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The Hezbollah soldiers surrounding the town, which is encircled by coils of barbed wire and a reported 6,000 landmines, play a grotesque game of chance with patients brought to them by the clinic; some can pass through while others are sent back to their deaths.
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Essawi and a trade ministry official suggested the attack was partly motivated by Islamic State's desire to seize wheat stored in the silo to feed residents in the encircled areas of Falluja and Garma, but said the militants had not managed to take the supplies before fleeing.
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RINCON DE CHAUTLA, Mexico (Reuters) - When the 56-year-old mother-in-law of David Sanchez Luna was tortured and killed after venturing out of her small Mexican community encircled by drug cartels, he let his 7- and 10-year-old daughters receive military-style weapons training.
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Fierce fighting -- some of the most ferocious in the conflict's five-year history -- has raged around the southwestern Aleppo, particularly around the strategically crucial Al Ramouseh neighborhood, as the rebels launched a concerted push to break the siege and allow for the resupply of the encircled enclave.
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"I talk about lifting up the sieges of those encircled cities and towns and releasing those who are detained and letting all the aid and assistance arrive to those who are in need, and stop the striking of those residential civilian areas," Hijab said through a translator.
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While the ceasefire deal addresses Turkey's main concerns in Idlib - stopping a flow of migrants and preventing the death of more Turkish soldiers - it also cements recent gains by Russian-backed Syrian government forces and leaves Turkish observation posts in the region encircled by the Syrian side.
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And a pair of earrings with one small pink pearl stud teamed with a larger opal that dangled on a chain, encircled by a pavé pattern of tiny precious stones — mandarin garnets, peridots, emeralds and purple sapphires — looking like the colors of the rainbow on brushed gold.
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At a joint news conference after a meeting in Istanbul, Erdogan and Putin said they both agreed on the importance of delivering aid to Aleppo, whose opposition-held eastern sector has been encircled by Russian-backed Syrian forces for all but a short period since July.
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But the estimated 1,000 Islamic State fighters who are believed to be there could make a brutal and bloody last stand, the officials said, because Tal Afar has been encircled by Iraqi and Kurdish forces, making it difficult for the fighters to flee in large numbers.
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One of those areas cut off from the outside world was the small coastal town of Mallacoota, in Victoria near the NSW border, where residents and holiday-makers flooded the beach on New Year's Eve as fires encircled the town, cutting off any route out by land.
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And many have a whimsical quality, like a pair designed with rock crystal drops taken from an actual antique chandelier and cut down to size, then encircled by a blackened metal ring and suspended from a series of fine chains, all speckled with tiny natural pearls.
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